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Reports on developments related to paper industry in Western Massachusetts as of October 1996. Historical background; Decline of the industry; State agencies and legislators' efforts to create a partnership with the industry; State Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) role in the partnership; Factors affecting the industry.

Focuses on the origin and growth of Boston, Massachusetts' newspaper "Boston Phoenix." Influence of the newspaper on Boston' liberal paper "Globe"; Difficulties faced by the paper over editorial content and management; Operating losses suffered by the "Boston Phoenix"; Circulation of the newspaper in 1972.

Focuses on the significance of paper shredding in various businesses in Massachusetts. Confidentiality of business documents; Provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; Protection of the financial records of the firms.

Focuses on Bay State Paper Co.'s reopening of a containerboard plant at the former Patriot Paper Co. mill in Boston, Massachusetts. Previous owners of Patriot Paper; Optimism of Bay State executives about the revival of Patriot Paper mill; Processing system at the facility. INSET: Recycling mill blooms in the desert, by R.S..

Presents an essay on the fading paper mill industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts. World-class supplier of fine writing papers in the mid-nineteenth century; Raymond Beaudry, president of the paper makers union; Mills supplying jobs for newly arrived immigrants; Skill of Holyoke machine tenders; Brief history of Holyoke's paper industry.

Reports that Sappi Fine Paper North America in Boston, Massachusetts is exiting the uncoated paper business and will close its paper mill in Mobile, Alabama. Information on the bill; Business plan of the company after the mill's closure.

Features Working Knowledge, a program developed by local paper industry, Holyoke Community College and the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce to address skills gap and shortage of qualified employees in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Aim to identify the specific skills necessary for a particular position; Program's goal to quantify a job's qualifications as much as possible.

Reports on the need to restore the paper and textile mill buildings in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Tenants of the buildings; Reputation of the place; Future plans of business establishments in the area.

Reports on the numerous small newspapers and newsletters that were launched from California to Massachusetts under the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), some of which found their own economic base while the others closed down. Region covered by the "East Boston Community News"; Correspondents and staff members of the East Boston paper; Editorial planning and policy decisions on the paper; Newsletter sponsored by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based private agency, Urban Planning Aid; Reasons cited for the closure of the newspaper "The Grapevine."

Focuses on the project to convert the former OM Colony Envelope manufacturing facility in Westfield, Massachusetts, into a Class A office building. Plan of leasing the first floor to a restaurant; Office space in the top three floors; Shortage of Class A office space outside of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts.

Reports on the expected sale of the tax-exempt commercial paper notes by state of Massachusetts as of December 2001. Reasons for the sale of tax-exempt commercial paper notes; Dealers for the series notes; Introduction of the state's fourth commercial paper program; Rating of the program according to Moody's Investors Service Inc.

Reports on the addition of waste residuals from five paper mills to increase efficiency at the yard trimmings composting site in Springfield, Massachusetts. Collection responsibilities; Composting steps; Proactive odor management; Compost use.

Reports on changes in the commercial printing industry in Massachusetts. Technology used by Marcus Printing; Other commercial printers that are investing in equipment and technology; Improvements in the technology employed by commercial printers; Opportunities presented by the practice of sending out business forms.

Discusses how businesses in Massachusetts are coping with the price increase of paper. Supply and demand situation of the commodity; Tactics employed by MassMutual Insurance Co., BayBank and Big Y Foods; Effect of the shortage on paper intensive industries like banking and newspaper publishing.

The article reports that Holyoke, Massachusetts-based Hazen Paper Co., has received chain of custody tri-certification, which makes it eligible to supply converted paper and paperboards that are certified by three forest development organizations including Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC). It is stated that it recognizes Hazen's long term commitment to protect the environment.

Discloses that Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, has filed suit against several companies in seven states for allegedly selling term papers over the Internet to someone posing as a student.

Focuses on Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard University School of Law's response to student gripes that life at the law school is cold and hard.

Observes the removal of classified documents from the National Archives allegedly committed by Sandy Berger, a former security adviser to President Bill Clinton. Analysis of theories as to why the documents were removed; Suspicion as to whether he took them inadvertently; Questionable timing of the story being leaked immediately before the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

This article looks at the recall of government papers from libraries and how the protest of librarians reversed the government's position. The controversy began after the DOJ requested through the GPO's Superintendent of Documents that five documents distributed on civil and criminal asset forfeiture procedures were to be withdrawn and destroyed immediately, as they are intended for internal use only. The documents were Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure, Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms, Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes, Asset forfeiture and Money Laundering Resource Directory, and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA). Librarians, however, launched a campaign to reverse the order and the American Library Association (ALA) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, asking why DOJ requested that documents that have been available for as long as four years be removed. Boston Public Library president Bernie Margolis, in a statement on the ALA Council electronic list, said he had asked that the decision be reconsidered and noted that he had copied the documents for cataloging as part of BPL's collection. Though DOJ officials said that the materials were inappropriately distributed to depository libraries through an error, Superintendent of Documents Judith Russell noted that the agency determined that these materials are "not sufficiently sensitive to require removal from the depository library system."

Presents a corporate profile for InteliCoat Technologies, a manufacturer of coated papers, films, and specialty substrates, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Number of employees; Focus of the company in long-term customer relationships and future prospects; Factors that contributed to the company's growth; Company background.

Reports on how Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are attempting to communicate or publish text and image on paper without benefit of an external machine, be it printing press or computer. Digital delivery of news; Availability of the technology for paper that prints itself with electronic ink; Viability of the new technology in the newspaper market.

Features the online course on paper preservation conducted by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in North Andover, Massachusetts. Provision of introductory lessons linked to a glossary and a bibliography; Outline of lessons; Availability of lesson texts at the center's Web site.

This article focuses on American Oriental Society. Once in three years the Oriental Society, in accordance with a not unpleasant restriction imposed by its charter, revisits the scene of its earliest activity and meets in Massachusetts, usually in Boston or Cambridge. In the first session of the society, President of the society being the presiding officer, which was held on, April 6, 1899 when the annual business was transacted, and several of the thirty-four papers offered at this meeting were read. The papers read at this first session were few in number, as the greater part of the morning had been given up to business, but the society listened, before adjourning, to one of the two technical papers offered by some professors.

Reports on a lawsuit filed by Coretta Scott King against Boston University for the return of the papers of the late Martin Luther King Jr. King's deposit of his papers at the university in 1968; Claim that the papers belong to King's estate, not the university; Proposal that the papers be kept at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.

The article focuses on the Conservation Fund and conflicting resource rights that hinder investment in timber and coal. Hidden beneath a misty canopy of oak, pine and hickory trees on 75,000 acres of timberland in eastern Tennessee, an investment opportunity of the rarest kind is unfolding--one that unites bickering factions of timber companies, coal miners, state regulators and greenie activists. In the Cumberland Forest deal, the Conservation Fund has made itself the middleman in a fractious relationship between rival rights owners. The dealmaker is the Conservation Fund, which seeks to preserve pristine lands by lining up big investors to buy the tracts outright. Longtime environmentalist Patrick Noonan founded it in 1985 with the "genius grant" he was awarded by the MacArthur Foundation. Each year the group looks at 500 deals and gets involved in a quarter of them. "We speak their language; we know what the hurdle rate is," says the Conservation Fund's chief executive, Lawrence A. Selzer. The 75,000-acre sweep of forest in eastern Tennessee was the unwanted asset of International Paper. The Conservation Fund's pinstriped M.B.A.s took on--for a fee that covered their expenses--the mountain of paperwork required to divvy up the rights into neat and sellable strata and then helped match the owners with new buyers. They also stripped the tract of its development rights and stipulated that much of the land must stay open for recreation and that wetlands and wildlife must be protected. For the timber rights, the greenie dealmakers brought in a TIMO--a timberland investment management organization--GMO Renewable Resources in Boston.